Staff Writer, CNET News.com
December 12, 2002, 11:40 AM PT
IBM assured customers Thursday that the company will continue to sell and support OS/2, clarifying an online notice that drew speculation that the vintage operating system was being phased out.
The Notice of Software Withdrawal, published on Tuesday, lists nearly 300 OS/2 products that won't be available directly through IBM starting in March 2003.
That doesn't mean that the company won't continue to sell the 15-year-old operating-system software, IBM spokesman Steve Eisenstadt said. "As long as our customers want OS/2, we will support them," he said. "We don't have plans to withdraw OS/2."...
On C-NET
http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1001-977087.html
and on ZDNet